Participants will learn how to make and maintain beeswax wraps for keeping food fresh and hygienic without the use of single-use plastics such as cling-wrap.
Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening seminar series that will teach you how to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.
This month Maria Ciavarella from My Green Garden will show you how to preserve home grown tomatoes.
The session will cover the art and science of:
- bottling (jars of peeled tomatoes)
- pickling (green tomato pickle)
- making a sauce (ketchup style)
- dehydrating (dried tomatoes)
- preserving using a process that requires no electricity, smoke or steam.
Registration is recommended but not required.
This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.
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Celebrate National Tree Day in 2024.
Bring along your family and friends for a morning planting native trees and vegetation to help protect the park's natural environment.
Our team will be on hand to help and provide advice on planting for the local habitat.
What to bring
We'll provide all the tools, equipment, and plants. All you need to bring is a personal water bottle and any snacks.
Where to meet
The planting site will be at Ruffey Lake Park. along the creek at the bottom of Church Road entrance. Parking available Victoria Street entrance.
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Related events
Our presenter, Ian Moxon, is a seasoned sustainability consultant with over 15 years of experience in Electric vehicles. He’ll share his extensive knowledge and valuable industry insights into the benefits of electric vehicles.
The information session will cover:
- charging systems, charging times and expanding infrastructure
- distances that Australians usually travel and how the perceived barrier to EVs is dissolving
- battery technologies - innovation is driving higher capacity, less weight, longer life spans, better safety and end of life recycling
- the cost to travel using electricity as a fuel and the impact of a growing electric fleet for our electricity grid
- the various models that are available now, and the many more that will arrive with policy changes and surging demand.
This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.
Bookings are essential.
Come along and help celebrate National Wattle Day in 2024 by registering for a community planting session hosted by our Parks and Environment team.
Meet at Stiggant Reserve where you will be guided by the team to plant local native plants to improve the habitat along the Birrarung (Yarra River) corridor.
Walking football is specifically designed for people over 50.
It is a social, small-sided, and sustainable version of football played by people worldwide. It is the slower paced version of the beautiful game and the rules have been adjusted to make it social, safe and fun.
Come along to our come and try event to give walking football a go!
No bookings required - just turn up.
Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening seminar series that will teach you how to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.
Join urban food garden specialist Kat Lavers from The Plummery as she discusses garden tools and infrastructure.
The session will cover:
- alternatives to pots
- stakes
- shade cloth
- nets
- buckets
- ties
- and what to look out for in hard rubbish, skips and op shops.
Kat will also cover which tools are worth investing a few dollars in, and how to look after them.
Food swap from 6.45pm, session starts at 7.00pm.
Registration is recommended but not required.
This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.
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Join us for an engaging seminar where we'll delve into the fascinating world of fungi with expert Dr. Alison Pouliot.
The earth’s rapidly changing climate and environmental issues have come into sharp focus through the demise of charismatic megafauna and the ‘biodiversity crisis’. But what about stinkhorns and slime moulds? How do fungi and their kin get our attention when they are not only overshadowed by more ‘popular’ organisms, but are rarely included in our ideas about ‘nature’ or ‘biodiversity’?
The good news is it seems we’re in something of a ‘fungal awakening’ and mushrooms are finally having their moment. Over the last 25 years Alison has divided her time between hemispheres, working both with fungi and their followers. She has been actively involved in fungal conservation and land restoration programs.
In this talk Alison will explore how fungi are perceived across hemispheres in conservation contexts and which fungal flagships best capture the public imagination. She will also share some stories from the writing of her recent book, Underground Lovers – Encounters with Fungi in which she interacted with fungi and their followers across a dozen countries.
There will be an opportunity at the end for participants to show their specimens or purchase books.
Booking essential: Limited to 50 people.
About the Presenter
Alison Pouliot, BA (Philosophy), BSc Hons (Zoology), PhD (Ecology/Mycology).
Alison is an ecologist, environmental photographer and author and has presented over 800 environmental seminars, forays and workshops in Australia and internationally.
Seminar field trip
Attending this event will enable you to attend the Seminar field trip: Meeting with mushrooms.
- Date: Thursday 30 May 2024
- Time: 9.00am to 11.30am
This exciting field trip introduces participants to the diversity, ecology and curiosities of the Kingdom Fungi, specific to fungi found in the region and its various habitat types.
Participants will learn some of the basic skills used to identify fungi in the field using multiple senses. The relationships between fungi and various plant species and different habitat types will be discussed. Every fungus has intriguing natural and cultural histories and stories, and these will be shared along the way.
Interested participants will be sent a registration link.
One Tree Hill nature walk is the jewel in the crown of the Warrandyte Kinglake Nature Conservation Link. Explore habitat for many species no longer found further south.
Distance: 8kms
Time: 4.5 hours
Rating: Difficult
BYO lunch and water
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Join the Friends of Warrandyte State Park (FOWSP) for a planting day at Pound Bend.
Meet at the Friends of Warrandyte State Nursery at 9.00am for 9.15am start.
Gloves and tools will be provided. Please bring your own morning tea.
Home Harvest Manningham is a monthly home gardening series to inspire you to grow your own delicious fresh food at home.
Gardens are the natural habitat for all types of insects – the good, the bad and the ugly.
Integrated Pest Management aims to manage pests using a mixture of physical, cultural, and biological control methods, with low impact chemical being used as a last resort.
This session will cover:
- an introduction to Integrated Pest Management
- being a detective – identifying the culprits
- beneficial insects versus pests
- using barriers and cultural strategies
- when to consider garden chemicals
- an introduction to companion plants to help control garden pests and diseases
- common garden pests and control options.
Food swap from 6.45pm, session starts at 7.00pm.
This event is part of our Inspired Living Series. This series showcases an exciting range of fun and sustainable activities and events for all ages, supporting sustainability at home, in the community and at work.
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Join local ecologist John Harris as he takes you on a journey through Warrandyte State Park’s Fourth Hill.
John will undertake a bird survey and help you identify birds found in the Warrandyte area.
Walk rating: 3km moderate walk, includes steep and narrow sections, creek crossing, slippery sections and tripping hazards.
Food and snacks
A light breakfast will be provided at the end of the walk.
If you have any special dietary requirements, we recommend bringing your own food and snacks.
What to bring and wear
Bring a water bottle, wear solid shoes, weather appropriate clothing and bring your own binoculars so you don't miss a thing!
Download the Aussie Bird Count Smartphone Application on Android and Apple before the walk and bring your smartphone on the day.
Where to meet
The meeting place will be at Gold Memorial Drive Picnic Ground. 10 minutes before the walk starts.
Please note: the nature walk could be cancelled due to extreme weather.
This event is part our Manningham Spring Outdoors Series, where we offer a range of fun outdoor activities across Manningham.
You can also check what’s happening across other Councils by visiting the Spring Outdoors website.
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Learn how to make seed bombs for your home or community garden.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover how to make seed bombs using native flower seeds and all the nutrients and protection the seeds need to get a great start on life.
Suitable for children aged 5 to 12 years.
The local community is invited to a guided walk to learn about the billabong's extraordinary significance and to help in a working bee to collect old tree guards.
Refreshments will follow.
This event is part of the 2024 Birrarung Riverfest.
This event has been funded by the Victorian Government through the North East Community Fund.
Celebrate National Tree Day in 2024 by registering for the following 2024 National Tree Day community planting sessions at 9.00am to 11.00am Ruffey Lake Park.
Bring along your family and friends and help plant native trees and vegetation to protect the park's natural environment.
Our team will provide advice on how and where to plant the plants to support local habitat.
What to bring
We'll provide all the tools, equipment, and plants. All you need to bring is a personal water bottle and any snacks.
Where to meet
Ruffey Lake Park, along the creek at the bottom of Church Road entrance, Park available at the Victoria Street entrance.
Please note this year's National Tree Day also has a second location at:
11.00am to 1.00pm Mullum Mullum Creek, walk 100 meters upstream from Reynolds Road Bridge, Donvale.
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After months of weed removal, Andersons Creek Landcare Group is excited to be planting!
We have 1,000’s of grasses waiting to go in the ground. All we need is the person power.
Join us for a relaxing afternoon of planting. You will be part of this great habitat restoration project.
Learn how to make seed bombs for your home or community garden.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover how to make seed bombs using native flower seeds and all the nutrients and protection the seeds need to get a great start on life.
Suitable for children aged 5 to 12 years.
The switch to renewable energy has begun in many modern and sustainable homes.
Come along to this webinar and dive deeper into how to go 100 per cent green electric, and even manage ‘energy independence’ during grid failure.
Our presenter, Ian Moxon, is a seasoned sustainability consultant with over 15 years of experience in the field.
He’ll share his extensive knowledge and valuable industry insights into the benefits of electrifying everything.
The webinar will cover the following topics:
- energy bills are rising and supply is less secure, so it's time to take control of your power
- analyse and expand your solar power toward independence
- targeting other uses for your solar energy
- electrification of your home and mobility saves money
- the future of smart homes has begun
- energy storage – thermal, stationary, mobile or everything?
This is one of three webinars in the Electrify Everything webinar series. Please book a place for each of the webinars you plan to attend.
Ahead of National Recycling Week, join Precious Plastic Melbourne to gain an overview of the different types of plastic in circulation, their recyclability and usage.
Learn about some of the challenges of recycling certain plastic materials, and understand the complexity that exists at a local area level.
This session will help you identify different plastic types with ease and confidence and understand what can be done with them.
Are you new to composting? Come along and learn from the experts at Compost Community. They will show you how to get started on your composting journey.
Topics will include:
- choosing a system that suits your lifestyle
- adding organics
- using the finished compost.
The session will cover the three main types of composting – traditional compost, worm farming and bokashi.